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+
+[TIMESTAMP] 1215880818 Sat Jul 12 12:40:18 2008
+[BUILDTIME] 100 (9)
+[SIZE] 0.04 MB, 8 files
+
+[DEP] bash
+[DEP] binutils
+[DEP] bzip2
+[DEP] coreutils
+[DEP] diffutils
+[DEP] fhs
+[DEP] findutils
+[DEP] gcc
+[DEP] glibc
+[DEP] grep
+[DEP] make
+[DEP] sed
+[DEP] sysfiles
+[DEP] tar
diff --git a/base/ascii/ascii.desc b/base/ascii/ascii.desc
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+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+[COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+[COPY]
+[COPY] Filename: package/.../ascii/ascii.desc
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2008 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY]
+[COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+[COPY]
+[COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+[COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+[COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+[I] Recognize and print ASCII character names and decimal/octal/hex codes
+
+[T] Ascii takes a command line argument, recognizes in it any of the
+[T] synonyms for an ASCII character and prints all the others. Synonyms
+[T] include decimal, octal and hex numerical values, ASCII mnemonics, ISO
+[T] code points and official names, HTML/SGML style entities, and slang
+[T] names ranging from common to obscure. As a side effect, ascii serves as
+[T] a handy base converter for values in the range 0-255.
+
+[U] http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii/
+
+[A] Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
+[M] Alejandro Mery <amery@opensde.org>
+
+[C] extra/tool
+
+[L] GPL
+[S] Stable
+[V] 3.8
+[P] X -----5---9 800.000
+
+[D] 3739032000 ascii-3.8.tar.gz http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii/